Via Free Beacon:
CNN host Don Lemon suggested Wednesday that a tape of Hillary Clinton laughing about the details of a 1975 child rape case she defended was not authentic.
He will be disappointed to learn his network has reported on the tapes of Clinton talking to journalist Roy Reed on numerous occasions. The Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman broke the story in 2014 when she discovered the tapes in archives at the University of Arkansas. CNN itself did a lengthy report on the subject, in addition to numerous panel discussions on the tapes.
When former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski brought up the case on Wednesday, including how Clinton argued the 12-year-old victim had fantasies for older men, Lemon eagerly said he was “glad” Lewandowski brought it up. The host produced fact-checks addressing a different element, regarding false claims that Clinton had laughed at the victim herself.
In the actual tape, Clinton recalled the “fascinating” case and how her client passed a polygraph, which “forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs.” Clinton laughs while discussing this detail. She also laughed about preventing a “miscarriage of justice” by bringing in an expert from New York to cast doubt on the prosecution’s forensic evidence. The rapist eventually pleaded guilty to a minor charge.
Yes, it was her, and it wasn’t just that she laughed about getting him off. It was that she made claims against the victim under oath in the effort to undermine her and have her ordered to submit to a psychiatric examination:
Hillary submitted no evidentiary support for these assertions, didn’t even name by whom she had been ‘informed’, things that would be normal to support such a request. If they actually existed.
The victim, Kathy Shelton, claims that these were just lies, part of the effort to smear her.